2001 and 2011 the gender ratio (number of girls compared to number of boys per
thousand) worsened, with only 914 girls for every 1000 boys being recorded,
down from a ratio of 974:1000 in 1961. Some of the worst offending states,
especially Haryana, did see slight improvements, but this was more than offset
by the decline in Southern India, which traditionally has been less anti-
female than the north. Much of the gap is due female foetuses being aborted.
But infanticide (the killing of babies/infants) is also widespread, with young
girls being murdered all over India. What though can be done about it?
Lifting people out of poverty is often the answer to many issues, but not this
one. In the last twenty years, India has got richer, yet the gender imbalance
is worse. It is often richer families who abort female foetuses, as they have
access to ultrasounds and the money to pay for an abortion. As Rita Banerji's
article last week showed, such attitudes still exist in the (comparatively)
wealthy Indian diasporas in the West, and this is only ...
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